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Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Day 895.
Today, we bring you the latest updates from the front lines and discuss in detail the situation on the front lines with friend of the podcast, Kyiv Independent Reporter, Francis Farrell who’s recently returned from a reporting trip near Toretsk in Donbas.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to Francis Farrell (Reporter The Kyiv Independent). @francisjfarrell on X.
Articles Referenced:
With Ukrainian infantry facing Russians near Toretsk (Francis Farrell for the Kyiv Independent):
https://kyivindependent.com/video/?slug=with-ukrainian-infantry-facing-russians-near-toretsk
Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers (The Telegraph):
How Putin turned Belarus into Russia’s vassal state (James Kilner in The Telegraph):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/02/how-putin-turned-belarus-into-russias-vassal-state/
Francis Farrell answers questions about war in Ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/francis-farrell-answers-questions-about-war-in-ukraine/
Eye of the storm: A day in the life of Ukrainian infantry on the zero line near Toretsk
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today we bring you the |
| 0:09.5 | latest to military, political and diplomatic updates and we discuss in detail the situation on the front lines |
| 0:15.4 | with friend of the podcast, Kie of independent reporter, Francis Farrell, who's recently returned |
| 0:20.5 | from a reporting trip near Teratz in Dombas. |
| 0:24.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:33.0 | The first duty of my government is security and defense |
| 0:38.0 | to make clear our unshakable support of NATO |
| 0:41.0 | and with our allies towards Ukraine. |
| 0:44.0 | Keep standing strong. |
| 0:46.0 | Nobody is going to break us. |
| 0:48.0 | We're strong. |
| 0:49.0 | Where Ukraine is. |
| 0:50.0 | It's Monday, 5th of August. Two years and 168 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 0:56.0 | I started by summarising the latest news from Ukraine. |
| 1:00.0 | On the front line, Russia said its soldiers have seized Novicelev Kapersha, a village in the Bocross direction in Dombass. |
| 1:08.0 | This would be the laces in the region in the last few weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | Russian military bloggers also claimed that its soldiers have planted a flag |
| 1:15.2 | on the T0504 highway that runs from the town of Constantinople south of Chassevio, |
| 1:20.1 | to Bachmut, a route that Ukrainian officials have previously described as critical. |
| 1:24.6 | We have not been able to independently verify that claim, it must be said. |
| 1:28.4 | Reports have also said that in the battered town of Chasiveyar, Russian soldiers have breached |
| 1:32.0 | a canal that runs through its center and fighting is ongoing. |
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